as in to exceed
to go beyond the limit of the principal overstepped her authority in ordering everyone to remain in the unheated school

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Recent Examples of overstep Sometimes perfume makers apparently overstep on their own. Keenan Thompson, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Don’t overstep your boundaries. Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Local officials in The Prairie State have pushed back on the administration’s threat, suggesting Trump is overstepping his authority. Steff Danielle Thomas, The Hill, 6 Sep. 2025 The federal appellate court said Williams had overstepped the law to require testing and supplies at one specific jail, at the expense of others in the county. Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overstep
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  • Buoyed by those gains, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite secured new closing highs, with the former exceeding the 6,600 level for the first time.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Open sources estimate that in 2022, UralVagonZavod produced some 60-70 T-90M tanks; by 2023, that may have risen to 140-180; and for 2024, output is estimated to have exceeded 200 units annually.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • Employee health costs are likely to surpass $5,000 next year as companies see their biggest cost increases in at least five years, according to projections from Aon.
    Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • During their 27-18 victory over the Commanders at Lambeau Field, however, the Packers surpassed Parsons’ best-case scenario.
    Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Overstep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overstep. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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